Androgynous, gender defiant, and ambixesual, Jagger has come to symbolize rock from the 60s and 70s.

Look-alike ex-wife Bianca once claimed he married her because "he wanted to achieve the ultimate by making love to himself."

Jagger was born in Dartford, England, July 26, 1944. 

When he was five, he met Keith Richards at primary school but it would be years later before they realized their mutual love of music. It came when they bumped into each other on a train platform and Richards noticed the stash of American blues records under Jagger's arm. 

It was the beginning of a collaboration that would see Jagger leave his studies at the London School of Economics.

With a third friend, Brian Jones, they formed a band. Soon they were joined by Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts. The group began performing around London and took their name from a Muddy Waters blues song ("Well my mother told my father, Just before I was born, 'I gotta boy-child comin, Gonna be a Rollin' Stone.'")

The Stones achieved success in England, but didn't explode in the States until the release of the single "Satisfaction," off their second album. They took America by storm, perfecting their rebellious personas in front of the entire nation via Ed Sullivan's stage. 

Jones, Jagger, and Richards were all arrested in 1967 on trumped-up drug charges, and Jagger was sentenced to three months in prison; the charges were eventually reduced, but the lurid details of the Rolling Stones' lifestyle that emerged during the trial only served to fuel their bad-boy image. 

His blurred sexuality made him one of the most desired men on the planet, and he has taken full advantage. His pouting face with large sensual lips, his lithe androgynous body, and his well packed basket still stand him well, even in middle age.  

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